Google Earth is one of the great “wow” applications in Google’s stable, especially on touch devices like Android smartphones or the iPad, whether it’s showing undersea formations or cities in 3D . It’s also surprisingly useful, and Google’s always adding elements to it to give it more utility and/or fun. The newest is the clouds layer, which now shows rain and snow in real-time weather patterns, across the globe
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Google Earth Now Shows Rain and Snow in Real Time
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Streaming video is Netflix ’s future–it’s no secret, not to their customers, not to the press, and not to their peers. But the company’s difficulties in securing top-quality movies and TV shows from the studios to stream is well-documented
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How Netflix Scores Top Movies and TV for Streaming
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The first experience will put you in the seat of B.A. Baracus driving the iconic van throughout the maps of some world main cities
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Hit the road
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Why bother visiting New York, if you can do it in Google Earth without the smell of rotting fish? If you’re considering a visit to New York City but you’d really rather be playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Google Earth has a sensible compromise: They’ve just released ultra-high quality images of New York stretched over a 3-D map so you can swoop through the city like Superman. It’s all a bit hallucinatory, as this video shows: [youtube 4k2_HHrk8Y8] Obviously, you have to download the Google Earth app to experience it
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Google Unveils a 3-D New York City in Google Earth
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Google Earth is always a bit of a curio–appealing to the voyeur inside all of us a little, as well as tapping into some vague educational vein. It’s just got a whole lot more curious though, with under-sea and WWII layers that’ll really appeal to academics. Predictably Google’s touting the new oceanic layers with the line “anyone can be a desktop Cousteau” but that doesn’t detract from how interesting the new material actually is.
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Recreate ‘The Abyss’ and ‘Dambusters’ With Google Earth
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We’re obsessed with the death of cities: our Netflix queues are filling up with post-apocalyptic sagas , we stack our coffee tables with doomsday books , and drool over ruin porn . The idea of saving cities with sparkling new architecture sounds trite these days–the stories we love are about re-use. From New York to San Francisco to London , planners are turning abandoned train tracks (and bridges) into parks
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The Age of the Urban Retro-Fit: Reversing Climate Change, One Green Roof at a Time
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There are a growing number of indicators that the end of the recession is happening, and here’s a surprising one: Sales of PCs around the world literally rocketed upwards from their previously doomy pace at the end of 2009. Research company Gartner puts the figure at a 22% growth in the final quarter of 2009 versus the figure in 2008 (IDC’s research suggests a more modest 15% but the figure’s still highly positive) and that’s quite an astonishing turnaround
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Computer Sales Shoot Up Globally–Sign of Recovery or Just Apple Fanaticism?
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Just before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, January 13, a magnitude-7 earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti, flattening hundreds of buildings and killing as many as 100,000 people.
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Haiti Earthquake Disaster: Google Earth, Online-Map Makers, Texts "Absolutely Crucial"
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Just before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, January 13, a magnitude-7 earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti, flattening hundreds of buildings and killing as many as 100,000 people. (Related slideshow: Haiti Earthquake: A Bird’s Eye View of the Disaster .) Within minutes, the news had spread to Facebook and Twitter.
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Haiti Earthquake Disaster: Google Earth, Online-Map Makers, Texts "Absolutely Crucial"
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Google Earth partnered with GeoEye and DigitalGlobe to provide updated images of the post-quake landscape of Port-au-Prince–disaster and aid workers will be using some of these same images in their recovery efforts. Here are before and after shots of the damage
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Haiti Earthquake: A Bird’s Eye View of the Disaster
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